Slides and Placeholders
A slide is like a digital card or a single word processing page in a document, on which you can place your text, graphics, charts, and other items.
However, unlike a word processor, you cannot just begin typing directly onto the slide. A slide has special areas called placeholders, where you can enter text, pictures, charts, etc.
Each placeholder has a defined purpose. For example, a title placeholder is used to enter titles, a text placeholder is used to enter words, phrases, sentences, or bulleted lists; a clip art placeholder is used to insert an image; a graph placeholder is used to insert a graph and so on.
PowerPoint automatically assigns formatting options to the various text placeholders. All you have to do is to click in a placeholder and begin typing. The images, video, and audio that you add to a slide are called objects. Like the text (titles, subtitles, body text etc.) is added in a textbox, the slide layout contains object placeholders in a variety of combinations. You can resize and move placeholders and format them with borders and colours.
Adding Text to Slides
To insert text on slides,
1. Select a layout with text placeholders. (Note: Text placeholders are formatted for titles or bulleted lists.)
2. Click on a text placeholder.
3. A flashing insertion point replaces the text directions inside the placeholder.
4. Begin typing.
Adding Slide Objects
To add graphics and audio or video into your slides,
1. Select a layout containing a placeholder for an object. (NOTE: Some Place holders hold all types of objects, while others are predefined to hold specific objects such as clipart, movie, sound, graph, table, etc).
2. On the menu bar, click Insert and browse for the object that you want to insert in your slide.
